Look homeward for life's atrocities

We look in horror at the punishment meted out for an 8-year-old boy in Iran who stole a loaf of bread. The father holds his arm to the ground as an auto is driven over the arm so he will never use it again.

We read of a 15-year-old girl in Egypt wearing a dress that reaches just below her knees because she is a Christian and the punishment is 40 lashes right there in the courtroom. How unfair, we say.

Then there is the 17-year-old girl in Ohio who was threatened with death by her father because she converted to Christianity. She ran away from home, ending up in Florida, but is now back in Ohio in a foster home while lawyers argue her future placement. The parents are here as illegal immigrants to make this more bizarre.

However, we consider the innocence of these situations as foreign to our American belief in fairness and protection of the innocent, but our legalized abortions are just as horrible to behold. Recently, one of our granddaughters sent us the 12-week ultrasound photos of the baby she is carrying and it was possible at the end of this first trimester to determine that it will be another boy for his two brothers. There is not even a hint of abortion thinking, but the very frequency of this practice in our nation is abominable.

Myron H. Dudek

Bensenville